Thanksgiving through the ages and the home
The piece surveys the history of Thanksgiving from ancient times to 1882, noting customs in England, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and New York. It links holiday observance to home life and the moral progress of society, praising reason, science, and the ideal of a happy, loving home as the true foundation of contentment.
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Tabernacles
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Plymouth
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Magazine of American History
Greenwich
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John Jay
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Herbert Spencer
Universal Accord Ayer's Cathartic Puts for Family Use
By Universal Accord Ayer's Cathartic Pills are marketed as the best purgatives for family use. The advertisement touts their vegetable, sugar coated composition and claims of safety for children and weakened constitutions. It asserts physicians and civilized nations rely on them and they keep the system in order. For sale by all druggists.
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